Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #02 Fitrah

We are reaching the second day, and we

are thinking about all these resistances

and all these types of jihad that we

have in Islam.

We spoke yesterday

about the the the the very important comprehensive

approach when it comes to Sharia. This is

the path that we have to follow. Understanding

that if we we want to follow the

path, the path of faithfulness

to the first

and coming back to

him,

We need to struggle. We need to resist.

To resist through knowledge,

to ignorance. To resist

through education,

to,

and avoiding the patience and and the passions

that we have and and and and every

the desires and the instincts.

Having said this, now there is something also

which is very important. This is the path

that we have and why we are trying

to remain faithful.

But there is a notion which is so

essential when it comes to ourself. Am I

going to come back to myself and to

follow the path? And this notion is al

Fitra.

Al Fitra was understood by some as Islam,

by some scholars, but also as this natural

attractions towards God, which is in fact the

answer to the essential question,

why?

Why am I here? And what we know

in

why? Why am I here?

And what we know in Islam is that

we have this fitra, and we have been

created with this fitra. When we find in

the Quran,

So you have to stand to,

the truth and to this religion as

somebody who is following the natural path. And

this is

which is the natural

attraction,

with which we have been created.

There is no change in God's creation. So

we have to come back to this. And

this fitra is the starting point. This is

the way we have been created. And we

understand

that, we have to come back to this.

We have to protect it. We have to

protect the sound heart that we have

and to try to come close to Allah.

How are you going to do this?

And this is the essential question when it

comes to,

following the path that we have to struggle

to come back to the heart. And we

find in the Quran

something which is so essential here when it

comes to understand,

this past and this struggle.

When we find in the Quran,

The day where

no money,

no children are going to save you except

the one who is coming with a sound

heart. The sound heart here is the natural

heart which has these attractions towards the

transcendence.

What is going to prevent us from here

from this? Everything which has to do with

our desires, our instincts that could cover the

fitra. So we have to struggle to keep

it uncovered,

to keep it attracted,

connected to the transcendent.

And how are we going to do this

as Muslims? And this is why, for example,

we are fasting

by mastering our mastering our desires,

mastering our instincts

in order

to avoid having our heart sealed. This is

what we find in the Quran.

They have the heart sealed, those who are

rejecting God. And this is also what we

have when it is said, for

example, There is a sickness in the heart,

and god is increasing this sickness.

This is a struggle, the struggle to come

back to our heart because god is working.

He is there. The knowledge of god is

between us and our heart. So the first

resistance

is to resist,

our

instincts to come back to the light in

our heart.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.